The Resource It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic, Jack Lowery
It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic, Jack Lowery
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- Summary
- "In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism from iconic images like the 'Kissing Doesn't Kill' poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis. Gran Fury and ACT UP's strategies are still used frequently by the activists leading contemporary movements. In an era when structural violence and the devastation of COVID-19 continue to target the most vulnerable, this belief in the power of public art and action persists"--Dust jacket flap
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 422 pages
- Isbn
- 9781645036586
- Label
- It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic
- Title
- It was vulgar & it was beautiful
- Title remainder
- how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic
- Statement of responsibility
- Jack Lowery
- Title variation
- It was vulgar and it was beautiful
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism from iconic images like the 'Kissing Doesn't Kill' poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis. Gran Fury and ACT UP's strategies are still used frequently by the activists leading contemporary movements. In an era when structural violence and the devastation of COVID-19 continue to target the most vulnerable, this belief in the power of public art and action persists"--Dust jacket flap
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lowery, Jack
- Dewey number
- 362.19697/92
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA643.75
- LC item number
- .L69 2022
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gran Fury (Artists' collective)
- ACT UP (Organization)
- AIDS (Disease)
- AIDS activists
- Communication in art
- LGBTQ+ activists
- HIV/AIDS
- STDs
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic, Jack Lowery
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-402) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 422 pages
- Isbn
- 9781645036586
- Lccn
- 2021031572
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)on1257292838
- (OCoLC)1257292838
- 4011408
- 4011408
- Label
- It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic, Jack Lowery
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-402) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 422 pages
- Isbn
- 9781645036586
- Lccn
- 2021031572
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)on1257292838
- (OCoLC)1257292838
- 4011408
- 4011408
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